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Leubingen, Home of the E.S.T.
Lying in the beautiful Unstrut valley, Leubingen offers a school,
a small church, and, of course, the birth house of the EST guitarist Robert Schinköthe. |
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Leubingen was first mentioned in a document in the year 1929 in a
memorandum from the Duke Heinz of Aschaffenburg. One year later,
the first flee market was held in traditional Lossagrund.
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In order to get to know Leubingen, it is best to start at the town
house and head north to the Saueranger. Standing here today is the former
"Ernst Thälmann" Polytechnic Secondary School,
which EST guitarist Robert Schinköthe
attended and which was built in 1961. Up and into the 1950´s, the Leubinger farmers
sold livestock, vegetables, and basket ware there.
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Where Unscht and Lossa gently touch.
Now let us make a half turn to the Northeast, and after a short jaunt across the
field we reach the train station. This was once a blustering trade center. A further
8 minutes in a now more western direction, passing the mouth of the Lossa river where it
joins the Unstrut, we can spot the Leubinger gravel pit in a small hollow, which has
always served as a lake for bathing and amusement as well as a place to relax. This is where
EST guitarist Robert Schinköthe
learned to walk and swim, and it was here that he would have lost his sight
if his glasses had not protected him from the wire in eye level.
Robert Schinköthe
recounts this event in the "Leubingen Tales".
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Leubingen Tales.
Legend has it that sometimes, when the stars are in the right position,
one can see the restless spirit of Johanna of Kölleda wandering over the
lake in the gravel pit. As the second wife of the Kölleda merchant Pichel
in the 16th century she was beheaded and still strays through the
village (in Leubingen fashion) scaring the farmer´s livestock and whimpering
dreadful curses. |
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[Notes from: "Leubingen, how art thou fine" by W.Bremer, Edition Seidel's Small's, Bern 1980.]
You too should visit Leubingen in the idyllic Thuringia Unstrut valley.
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